shazow, can you draw me some cool avatar to use at betco.in? is 2 btc ok?

Indeed I can! Any preferences/theme/requests etc? I'll do a simple draft like the others for 2btc. If you really like it, you can commission a higher quality version later. Make it 2.03 or something so I can tell your payment apart and send it over to 1D7FRyhu1QzvdvjePVR6geui4DNaSgrM2E.

I would like a drawing that is not exactly bitcoin related. Rather, it would picture a caricature of the difference between capitalism and communism. At least in my mind.

Both pictures would represent a circle of armed men, with a worker inside. The worker can do anything, for instance he can mine something (not bitcoins, the idea is that he has to be a symbol of labour).

In the communist version, guns are pointed inside the circle. Towards the worker, preventing him from escaping. And the worker has a unhappy face

In the capitalist version, guns are pointed outside the circle. They aim at protecting the worker's product of labour. The worker has a happy face.

No legend. I'll add it myself.

2 BTC.

I hope this is what you had in mind. This one took the most time of all requests so far due to all the amount of detail, and I decided to go with pitchforks instead of guns for a more timeless feel and I skipped the faces for consistency in style (we can toss those on if you really want). If you like it, I hope you'll consider tossing a tip my way for the extra effort.

I am willing to commission a comic about public key cryptography for 2.5 BTC. Explains them in as many comic strip you want.

This one was conceptually the most challenging one out of all requests so far. How on earth do you describe public key crypto in a simple stickfigure comic? Like a boss, that's how. I hope this makes as much sense to everyone else as it does to me.

I'm thinking a dude reveling in all the bitcoins stacked around him, or something to that effect

You got it. Maybe I can score some kind of monopoly on all the betco.in avatars. Again, please make it something like 2.04 BTC so I can tell your payment apart, send it over to 1D7FRyhu1QzvdvjePVR6geui4DNaSgrM2E.

If I forgot anyone on this thread, please remind me. There's a few commissions going in private, I'm still getting to those.

- shazow

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nice work . How much do you charge for vector editions of it? Can you draw me two more? Both should mainly consist of the face/head down to about the shoulders, the face with black sun glases and having a big cigar in the mouth. Both should basically be the some pic but differ in how the face looks, one neutral, with its poker face set up and one with a big grin, like this smiley: . How much do you charge for this?

I would like a drawing that is not exactly bitcoin related. Rather, it would picture a caricature of the difference between capitalism and communism. At least in my mind.

Both pictures would represent a circle of armed men, with a worker inside. The worker can do anything, for instance he can mine something (not bitcoins, the idea is that he has to be a symbol of labour).

In the communist version, guns are pointed inside the circle. Towards the worker, preventing him from escaping. And the worker has a unhappy face

In the capitalist version, guns are pointed outside the circle. They aim at protecting the worker's product of labour. The worker has a happy face.

No legend. I'll add it myself.

2 BTC.

I hope this is what you had in mind. This one took the most time of all requests so far due to all the amount of detail, and I decided to go with pitchforks instead of guns for a more timeless feel and I skipped the faces for consistency in style (we can toss those on if you really want). If you like it, I hope you'll consider tossing a tip my way for the extra effort.

I have to say I am not very happy with it , but I reckon you tried hard so I'll send you the two bitcoins, don't worry. What bitcoin address should I use?

nice work . How much do you charge for vector editions of it? Can you draw me two more? Both should mainly consist of the face/head down to about the shoulders, the face with black sun glases and having a big cigar in the mouth. Both should basically be the some pic but differ in how the face looks, one neutral, with its poker face set up and one with a big grin, like this smiley: . How much do you charge for this?

As it says in the root post, vector editions of existing drafts are 10 btc. If you toss in 15 btc, I'll do all of them in vector, including the big grin dude.

Update 2: I've had a lot of fun doing this, huge thanks to everyone for participating. I fear this has taken up far more of my time than I expected, so I'm going to have to increase the minimum draft commission fee to 5 BTC (and the post-draft vectorizing remains at 10 BTC). If anyone is still interested, keep posting requests.

- shazow

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I have to say I am not very happy with it , but I reckon you tried hard so I'll send you the two bitcoins, don't worry. What bitcoin address should I use?

Oh no! Was it the pitchforks? Lack of sadfaces? Something else? I'd love your feedback so I can improve at taking requests in the future.

I really wanted guns, as it is not clear what the intent of the guys with forks is. On the communist version, it seems that they are about to attack, where I wanted them to look like they are watching and preventing from escaping. Also, there are too many people in the circle and it is not clear what they are doing. They don't seem to be working, but rather camping. Also, the perspective for the tent is wrong in the communist version. Thanks for your effort anyway.

I really wanted guns, as it is not clear what the intent of the guys with forks is. On the communist version, it seems that they are about to attack, where I wanted them to look like they are watching and preventing from escaping. Also, there are too many people in the circle and it is not clear what they are doing. They don't seem to be working, but rather camping. Also, the perspective for the tent is wrong in the communist version. Thanks for your effort anyway.

Ah all fair points. Thank you for the feedback. If I have some time, I'll see if I can do another more simple take on it.

- shazow

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For what it worths, I really think you have a real talent for this stuff. I'm pretty sure you'll make quite some bitcoins with this activity. Keep on the good work.

Thanks. I've always enjoyed drawing but it's not something I've ever considered I could make any kind of money on (except for that $5 I once made in grade 6 for doing a sketch from a Warcraft 2 manual).

Considering I did at least 12 drafts, plus a couple of digitally inked and a couple vectored. Even at 10 min per draft, 30 min per sketch/vector (very optimistic) that's at least 4 hours of contiguous work (probably closer to 7~8 hours in reality).

So, non-recurring 49 BTC for a solid day's work. Not exactly something I can make a living on just yet, but I hope you guys got more out of it than came out of your pockets.

- shazow

Did I just make an awesome? Maybe if you send some coins to 1BZYH24gDB5KZfr3fh2LahkqbYrGppZTPS right away, I can be conditioned to do more of that!